Bob Dylan: A Year and a Day

Photography by Daniel Kramer

When photographer Daniel Kramer first met Bob Dylan, the 23-year-old singer was still widely unknown. From 1964 to 1965, Kramer’s extraordinary access to Bob Dylan—on tour, in concert and backstage—allowed for one of the most mesmerizing portfolios of any recording artist and a stunning document of Dylan breaking through to superstardom.

Highlights include the Lincoln Center’s Philharmonic Hall concert; the Bringing It All Back Home recording sessions; and the now-famous concert at Forest Hills, when Dylan’s controversial transition to electric guitar exemplified his constant, cryptic state of becoming. As much a document of a seminal period of rock-n-roll history as of Dylan himself, the pictures also feature such compelling friends and collaborators as Joan Baez, Johnny Cash and Allen Ginsberg.

Bob Dylan: A Year and a Day Collector’s Edition is limited to just 1,765 books (there was also an imprint of 200 Art Editions produced—each accompanied by a silver gelatin fine-art print). Every book is personally signed by Daniel Kramer and includes nearly 200 images—many never published before. Each copy features letterpress-printed chapter openers with tipped-in photographs, different paper stocks, fold-outs, and is presented in a clamshell box.